{"id":3138,"date":"2004-12-17T18:04:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:28:13","slug":"the-horror-of-germanys-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-horror-of-germanys-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The horror of Germany&#8217;s war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/remembering-dresden-by-alan-cabal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060720101512\/http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/archives\/026826.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) on the horrors of Dresden, W. G. Sebald\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140298002\/limbicnutriti-21\/202-0454892-9792632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On the Natural History of Destruction<\/a>\u201c, and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571216528\/ref=ase_limbicnutriti-21\/202-0454892-9792632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crabwalk<\/a>\u201d by Gunter Grass, about the sinking of the German refugee ship, the \u201cWillem Gustloff\u201d, in 1945 with the loss of a staggering 10,000 lives.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to add a new book to the genre:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/0226595560\/limbicnutriti-21\/\">The End: Hamburg 1943<\/a> by H.E. Nossack<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"><p>Nossack was the only writer of the time to try recording what he actually saw as plainly as possible,\u201d writes W. G. Sebald about this memoir of the firebombing of Hamburg in 1943. Nossack watched the destruction of his city\u2014in the first firestorm achieved by Allied bombers\u2014from across the Elbe River. Only three months after the event, he completed The End, one of the most remarkable literary responses to the phenomenon of total destruction. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/cgi-bin\/hfs.cgi\/00\/16499.ctl\">MORE<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can read an extract from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.uchicago.edu\/cgi-bin\/hfs.cgi\/00\/16499.ctl\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have posted before (here and here) on the horrors of Dresden, W. G. Sebald\u2019s book \u201cOn the Natural History of Destruction\u201c, and \u201cCrabwalk\u201d by Gunter Grass, about the sinking of the German refugee ship, the \u201cWillem Gustloff\u201d, in 1945 with the loss of a staggering 10,000 lives. I would like to add a new &#8230; <a title=\"The horror of Germany&#8217;s war\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-horror-of-germanys-war\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The horror of Germany&#8217;s war\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-OC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}